[HN Gopher] Dark Patterns from the End-User Perspective
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       Dark Patterns from the End-User Perspective
        
       Author : skilled
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2022-12-09 18:43 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | sircastor wrote:
       | The paper suggests that economic incentives need to exist for
       | someone to solve TOS problem, but I wonder if we're going to see
       | a cottage industry of browser plugins to "fix" the problems
       | described. It's probably not highly automatable, but I wonder if
       | enough folks could making small efforts could make it work.
        
       | yedava wrote:
       | I think we should start teaching kids to recognize the myriad
       | ways technology is used to steal the most valuable thing they can
       | have - time.
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       | Like when I open Netflix I want to continue watching from where I
       | had stopped, but Netflix keeps jerking around the 'continue
       | watching' section with the hope that something else will catch my
       | attention and I would give my time to them. This kind of bad
       | behavior is just everywhere.
        
       | skilled wrote:
       | PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12653
        
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